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Country Life UK
Sweet like chocolate
Never judge a book by its cover–or a labrador by its chocolate coat, especially now they are no longer reviled in the shooting field
8 min |
October 20, 2021
Country Life UK
From rasher with love
Sizzling, crispy and irresistibly pork-scented bacon all starts with a well-reared traditional breed of pig and a slow, careful curing process.
8 min |
October 20, 2021
Country Life UK
A many-splendoured thing
Our correspondent savours the challenge of casting a few flies on the fabled Naver for the first time and ponders the endless paths a life of fishing roves
4 min |
October 20, 2021
Country Life UK
Best Autumn And Winter Escapes Across The World
Whether you’d rather take to the slopes or relax by the pool, Holly Kirkwood has the pick of autumn and winter escapes across the world
3 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
Into the blue
As one of the rarest gemstones, Paraíba tourmalines are getting rarer and even more desirable, reveals Joanna Hardy
7 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
Give us a clue
Can you explain what hair ice, cramp balls and pillow mounds are? If not, don’t worry–naturalist John Wright has all the answers to our most unusual countryside mysteries
5 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
Wild for magic mushrooms
No, not the fungi that inspire hallucinations, cautions Tom Parker Bowles, but do take the time to seek out divine-tasting ceps and chanterelles on the forest floor
4 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
The man who turned the tide
The first and last member of Enterprise Neptune on mapping the British coast
4 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
Fit for a king
Palaces around the world epitomise their countries’ varied architectural styles. Arabella Youens is enchanted
6 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
The lay of the land
As people moved into towns, they wanted peaceful depictions of rural life on their parlour walls, leading artists to look at farming through sepia-tinted spectacles
5 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
IT is impossible to calculate the number of roses which are climbing up old apple trees as a result of visits to Sissinghurst,’ wrote the late Anne Scott-James, author of the best-selling Sissinghurst—The Making of a Garden. Despite its country-house setting conferring a scale beyond that of the most amply proportioned cottage garden, Sissinghurst’s inspirational hold on amateur gardeners spans the generations, because its creator Vita Sackville-West was, or at least started out as, a novice gardener herself.
4 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
Easy does it
Despite classic proportions and lofty ceilings, Sophie Conran’s country house in Wiltshire blends comfort with intimacy
3 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
Building back better
Sizeable estates in the New Forest and Cotswolds rarely seen on the market show the benefit of improvement over centuries
5 min |
October 13, 2021
Country Life UK
The West on a roll
Three separate homes offer endless opportunities to make the West Country dream come true
5 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
What's good for the goose...
On a soft September morning, John Lewis-Stempel turns his attention to the farm’s Toulouse geese, which need to get fat on the latest flush of grass
4 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
Going out on a limb
An eclectic group of artists is breathing new life into the time-honoured pastime of painting trees. Laura Gascoigne meets The Arborealists
7 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
Tip-top tables
When laying a table, more is definitely the merrier
2 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
Up to speed
The debate over which is faster, the grouse or the golden plover,has raged for decades, finds Jonathan Young, as he aims to gauge our quickest sporting quarry once and for all
6 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
The man who can teach any dog new tricks
For many, owning a well-behaved gundog is a goal we never quite achieve, but Ben Randall’s methods and training app look set to change all that, finds Paula Lester, as she watches him put her labrador through his paces
7 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
Listening to the land
When Libby Russell moved to Batcombe House, Somerset, it was the countryside with which she fell in love. Over the past 17 years, she has taken cues from that landscape to create a garden that is entirely at home in its setting, reveals Natasha Goodfellow
6 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
Comfort and convenience
Modernist country houses of the 1930s and post-Second World War period could be stylish buildings that made use of new technology. They deserve to be better known, as Adrian Tinniswood explains
8 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
A taste of earth and sunshine
More than 60 years since Ladybird launched its much-loved series of ‘What to Look For’ Nature guides, Claire Jackson recalls fondly the quartet of books that have recently been re-released
5 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
A Northern powerhouse of conservation
Having returned otters to our waterways, the late Philip Wayre’s quest to improve wildlife lives on across a carefully managed tract of land in Weardale, finds Robin Page
5 min |
September 29, 2021
Country Life UK
Squawking points
THE grand Dutch Master paintings of arranged flowers—works by Jan Davidszoon de Heem and Ambrosius Bosschaert that are at once both orchestrated yet collapsing— are a constant inspiration when it comes to choosing what to grow.
3 min |
September 22, 2021
Country Life UK
Sweet relief
Faint heart never landed fair salmon, as our indefatigable correspondent discovers after a fishless run, which eventually (and thankfully) comes good
5 min |
September 22, 2021
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The times they are a-changin'
Through busy centuries and multiple owners, these Cotswold estates have been loved and enhanced
5 min |
September 22, 2021
Country Life UK
Dante's blessed damozels
He may not have been the most talented member of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but Dante Gabriel Rossetti was easily the biggest romantic, says Michael Prodger
7 min |
September 22, 2021
Country Life UK
Cloche encounters
Good news for gardeners: the traditional cast-iron cloche is being made again by an enterprising young British couple near Bath, finds Tiffany Daneff
4 min |
September 22, 2021
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On reflection
Hidden by gentle neglect and revealed by research, the remarkably intact 18th-century garden of Chettle House, Dorset, has been brilliantly reinterpreted by landscape designer Pip Morrison, reveals Christopher Stocks
5 min |
September 22, 2021
Country Life UK
Apples and bears
Cider will be forever associated with the Cotswolds thanks to Rosie. Jane Wheatley meets the makers keeping the tradition alive
8 min |